Ashok Chavan and Suresh Kalmadi have been eliminated. But the problem is more than individuals. The CWG and Adarsh housing society swindles are not the only scams that the UPA faces. Who can forget the 2G ripoff of Rs 170,000 crore by DMK’s A. Raja. Then there is the rice scam and the DD scam. So much has been written about Telecom scam, Sugar scam, Defense deals, illegal mining and what not! Committees are formed, with hardly anyone being charged unless the bastard politician becomes politically irrelevant. Continue reading
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Cleaning the state of Maharashtra
Prithviraj Chavan has a Herculean task ahead. His task is similar to Hercules’ 5th task. Hercules was asked to clean in one day the Augean stables that had 1,000 cattle and had never been cleaned! He accomplished this by changing the course of Alpheus and Peneus rivers to wash out the filth. Can Prithiviraj Chavan do the same for Maharashtra? Continue reading
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Media and Adarsh scam
It is good to see media’s effort to expose corruption in the recent Adarsh scam. Congress politicians and Bureaucrats had grabbed the housing meant for widows of Kargil war heroes, and media has done a decent job in exposing them. Well, what is funnier and obvious on the media front, is the competition going amongst them to prove who broke this news. Continue reading
Democracy and interest articulation
One of the major issues with Indian democracy is the problem of interest articulation. The very purpose of democracy fails when political parties fail to articulate the interest of majority. That is the very pillar of democracy. But the classes keep victimising themselves and always blame the other. Continue reading
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Democracy and rationalism
In a democracy like India, much of the government’s decisions are guided by populist stances, and not rational thinking. Political parties cannot afford to loose majority support which is crucial for holding the office in a democracy. Whenever there is an issue, and if the majority is the creator and not the victim of the issue, our political parties tend to support the majority blindly. Continue reading
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 